Exact density profiles and symmetry classification for strongly interacting multi-component Fermi gases in tight waveguides

TL;DR

This paper derives exact density profiles and symmetry classifications for strongly interacting multi-component Fermi gases in one-dimensional harmonic traps, revealing partial spatial separation and symmetry properties extending Lieb-Mattis predictions.

Contribution

It provides an exact solution for multi-component Fermi gases with strong interactions and introduces a symmetry classification method using conjugacy class sums.

Findings

Partial spatial separation depends on component populations

Ground states exhibit definite symmetry patterns

Generalizes Lieb-Mattis theorem to multi-component systems

Abstract

We consider a mixture of one-dimensional strongly interacting Fermi gases up to six components, subjected to a longitudinal harmonic confinement. In the limit of infinitely strong repulsions we provide an exact solution which generalizes the one for the two-component mixture. We show that an imbalanced mixture under harmonic confinement displays partial spatial separation among the components, with a structure which depends on the relative population of the various components. Furthermore, we provide a symmetry characterization of the ground and excited states of the mixture introducing and evaluating a suitable operator, namely the conjugacy class sum. We show that, even under external confinement, the gas has a definite symmetry which corresponds to the most symmetric one compatible with the imbalance among the components. This generalizes the predictions of the Lieb-Mattis theorem for a fermionic mixture with more than two components.